udarnik

From Russian уда́рник (udárnik), from уда́р (udár, “strike, blow, shock”) + -ник (-nik).

udarnik (plural udarniks or udarniki)

1. (historical) A shock worker; a super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc.

   Synonym: Stakhanovite

   • 1934, VOKS Bulletin, Issues 7-8‎^[1], Digitized edition, published 2006, page 80:

     Two short stories … give a true, warm and unvarnished picture of the formation of the character and consciousness of a young Komsomol worker in the heat of socialist competition and udarnik work.

   • 1968, Peter John Georgeoff, The Social Education of Bulgarian Youth‎^[2], Univ. of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 89:

     The account that follows appears in the alphabet book and first reader: Udarnik / Stefka Filipova is a weaver … She weaves faster and better than anyone else. For this reason she is a udarnik.

   • 1991, Eugene Lyons, Assignment in Utopia‎^[3], page 208:

     The brigadiers, or udarniki, worked harder, wasted less time and set an example for their more indolent or less ... Udarniki became a class apart on any job, compensated for their brigadiering by extra rations, priority in the distribution of deficit goods [...]

• udarnik on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Russian уда́рник (udárnik). Compare ùdariti and ȕdār.

• IPA^(key): /ǔdaːrniːk/
• Hyphenation: u‧dar‧nik

ùdārnīk m anim (Cyrillic spelling у̀да̄рнӣк)

1. (historical) udarnik
   • 1976, Grupa »Sunce«, Himna akcijaša:

     Šamac-Sarajevo
     ponos je i dika:
     to je delo ruku
     mladih udarnika!

     The Šamac-Sarajevo [railway]
     is our pride and glory:
     that is the work of the hands
     of the young udarniks!

• “udarnik”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025